How Christian Parker’s Defensive Overhaul Could Reshape the NFL Draft Landscape Forever
Parker was resolute — if not quite as cavalier as Bill Parcells 20 years ago, who “walked down the hallway and said, ‘Boys, we’re switching,’” then-Cowboys quarterbacks coach Sean Payton remembers.
Then-defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer, whose background was in the 4-3, was becoming a 3-4 play-caller.
“It wasn’t much conversation,” Zimmer told Yahoo Sports.
This Cowboys shift is different, coming from the coordinator up rather than the head coach down.
Nonetheless, two decades after the Cowboys took two seasons to feel like their personnel makeup and player buy-in could successfully green-light the transition from a 4-3 defense to a 3-4, Dallas is at it again.
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